Peace Skills Set, Set Includes: Leaders' Guide, Participants' Manual

by Evans, Alice Frazer; Evans, Robert A.

• ISBN13: 9780787948054
• ISBN10: 0787948055
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-13
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

The ONLY conflict resolution resource that looks at the religious dimensions of conflict and peace!In the Peace Skills training package, which includes a Leaders' Guide and a Participant's Manual, expert workshop leaders Alice and Robert Evans and Ron Kraybill (known for for their work on the South African peace and reconciliation movement) distill their many years of experience teaching peace-building skills to community leaders around the world. The Leader's Guide is designed to prepare people to lead Peace Skills workshops in their communities. It contains workshop designs and guidelines for teaching with role plays, case studies and sacred texts. The Manual is designed as a take-home resource to support workshop participants as they return to their communities and both apply their mediation skills and share their insights with others. This wise resource is a powerful tool for church lay leaders and clergy, church consultants, and missionaries and international peace workers.

Author Biography

Alice Frazer Evans is the Director of Writing and Research, Plowshares Institute. Co-Director Emeritus, Association for Case Teaching, and Visiting Scholar, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town. She is an elder and lay leader in the United Presbyterian Church. A prolific case writer, she has focused on the development of international case studies with special attention to the use of cases in conflict resolution training. She is the author and an editor of a number of books employing the case study approach. She is a Co-National Coordinator of the CERJ program for which she developed curriculum material.

Robert A. Evans is the Executive Director of Plowshares Institute and Visiting Professor, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town. He has taught on the faculty of both U.S. and international graduate schools and, as an ordained Presbyterian pastor, he has served churches in the United States and Europe. He has extensive experience in adapting the case method approach to conflict resolution and is the author of a number of books in areas such as human rights, education, development and theology. He served as Coordinator for Empowering for Reconciliation with Justice (ERJ) in South Africa and as Director of a project to apply ERJ learnings in other parts of the world.

Table of Contents

Guidelines for Community Conflict Transformation (CCT) Workshop

Identifying the Best Workshop Facilitators

Teaching Skills and Approaches

Community Conflict Transformation in Practice

How to Use the Leaders? Guide

Facilitation Skills

Using Role-Plays Effectively

Creating a Safe Space for Learning

The Learning Cycle

Using Role-Plays in the Learning Cycle

Debriefing Role-Plays and Using Coaches with Small Groups

Leading Large Group Debriefing of Role-Plays

Beyond the Role-Play

Case Studies in Conflict Transformation: What They Are and How to Use Them

Cases in Community Conflict Transformation

Selecting the Right Case

Presenting the Case

Reading the Case

Teaching the Case

Additional Suggestions for Effective Case Teaching

Annotated List of Case Studies, Teaching Notes and Role-Plays

Sources for Additional Case Studies

Encountering Sacred Texts

Spiritual, Moral, and Cultural Resources

The Power of Engagement

Approaches to Studying Sacred Texts

Guidelines for Group Sacred Text Study

Annotated List of Sacred Texts

Sources for Additional Sacred Text Selections

Workshop Designs

Community Conflict Transformation Workshop: Basic Skills Training

Designs for Brief Introductory Workshops

Half-Day Mediation Skills Workshop

One-Day Workshop: Introduction to Mediation

Designing an Advanced Workshop

Community Conflict Case Studies, Role-plays, and Sacred Text Studies

Community Conflict Case Studies

Beyond the Battle

Call to Prayer

Giving Thanks

Lord of the Dance

Independent Role-Plays

Neighborhood Conflict: Children and Dogs

The Student and the Jazz Musician

Sacred Text Studies

Recognition and Listening? Mark 10:46-52

Healing and Reconciliation? Genesis 25-33

Imagining Reconciliation with Enemies? Quran 60:7-9

Justice and Freedom? Preamble to the Constitution of South Africa

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